I'm happy to announce the completion of my (somewhat contrarian) guide to photography for geeks:

📷 lcamtuf.coredump.cx/photo_basics/

Whether you carry a smartphone or a $5,000 rig, my hope is to help you discover the joy of experimenting with simple (and effective) photo techniques.

The pandemic will be over when humans stop trying to end the pandemic.

In other news war is peace and love is hate. ❤️

The misconception that there is no sound in space originates because most space is a ~vacuum, providing no way for sound waves to travel. A galaxy cluster has so much gas that we've picked up actual sound. Here it's amplified, and mixed with other data, to hear a black hole!

Reminder that cybersecurity tools are often abused to make this unhealthy and increasingly pervasive culture of employee productivity monitoring possible - from MDM, to keystroke monitoring, to internet usage tracking. Always think of potential abuse of the stuff you implement.

When people tell me that they want to get back into reading but can’t seem to find THAT BOOK, I have some go-to recs based on what made them love reading in the first place

— here are 56 of them 🧵

West Texas storm chaser Laura Rowe captured the picture of a lifetime, fantastic shot of a mature supercell thunderstorm, illuminated at varying heights from the setting sun.

ATTN DRIVERS: Our partners at @DeathValleyNPS have provided an update on the status of the park:
- All roads into and out of the park are closed and will remain closed until park staff can assess the extensiveness of the situation.

📸 Credit: Death Valley National Park

Here is a look at some of the flood waters currently pouring over State Route 190 through @DeathValleyNPS . The highway, which stretches from Olancha to Death Valley Junction, remains closed at this time due to flooding.

DEATH VALLEY FLOODING: Highway 190 is closed in Death Valley due to flooding Friday morning. FOX5 viewer Landt Robert shared video of flooding in the area that he captured at about 7 a.m. Friday.

Who doesn't find this fascinating?

Did you know that 105 large reactor wall chart posters from Nuclear Engineering International are available for download? Get your favorite today! econtent.unm.edu/digital/collec…

That thing where you accidentally mess something up so many times that you become an expert in it

We're with you, Eddie!

#IronMaiden #StrangerThings

It’s worth reflecting that this summer in 2022 marks 30 years since the most epic summer ever for SF movie history. Look at all the awesome films that came out in summer of 1982!

I hope it means 1/1/2024 :)

give each pixel a random Pokemon type, and then battle pixels against their neighbors, updating each pixel with the winning type (using the Pokemon type chart)

we quickly see areas of fire > water > grass > fire, electric sweeping over, ground frontiers taking over etc etc

If the US were divided into 2, 4, 13, or 50 states of equal population.

[by @BenBlatt via @Slate]

YOU'RE TEARING ME APART Star Wars ! Put me in your Universe !

Most scientists from the Global South are not able to afford Open Access (OA). An OA article can equal 3 or 4 of our monthly salaries or the full yearly amount of one of our grants. This discriminatory situation creates a double-standard in science dissemination.

Exactly 30 years ago today, the longest siege of a capital in the modern history of the world started -Siege of Sarajevo. 4 years of famine, terror, murders in my city +especially my neighborhood Grbavica are missing in your history books, media +conversations. Important thread: